-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey folks,
On 25.10.2009 23:57, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Interesting. Mind sending this to the rhythmbox list? > The reason I didn't do that in first place was that I haven't checked whether that paper was freely available. These ACM folks require you to pay a buttload of money to access their database and then tag the downloaded PDF files. But anyway, this paper is available at: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/publications/ase07.pdf ABSTRACT Effective bug localization is important for realizing automated debugging. One attractive approach is to apply statistical techniques on a collection of evaluation profiles of program properties to help localize bugs. Previous research has proposed various specialized techniques to isolate certain program predicates as bug predictors. However, because many bugs may not be directly associated with these predicates, these techniques are often ineffective in localizing bugs. Relevant control flow paths that may contain bug locations are more informative than stand-alone predicates for discovering and understanding bugs. In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically generate such faulty control flow paths that link many bug predictors together for revealing bugs. Our approach combines feature selection (to accurately select failure-related predicates as bug predictors), clustering (to group correlated predicates), and control flow graph traversal in a novel way to help generate the paths. We have evaluated our approach on code including the Siemens test suite and rhythmbox (a large music management application for GNOME). Our experiments show that the faulty control flow paths are accurate, useful for localizing many bugs, and helped to discover previously unknown errors in rhythmbox Enjoy reading, Tobi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrlesUACgkQPuBX/6ogjZ66YQCgqJoYvXjWMg7HO7nsRQP/qJPv YLQAn2MKls77QMiYJVP+n/1GsbTE/ndc =TWvQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
